Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-09

: derived from au idea directly opposite.
According 20 Mr., Jefferson 'No set OF
men can make a perpetual law or coGstI-
tuition"
Inc genius OF cur government, which
2Dlors the PfOCiuSteal bed a. 3 mIdel
for : constitution, permits and erc0ur-
ages ii proper Intervals the rt-suHmis
sion 81 defeated issues.
As 10 tae nature OF the question, the
cause is Is iu5t in august rs n March
Tae dangers securing from tie liquor
tidiic have Increased with is victory
WIKI every battle their power and or
ga1-Z2tiCl become more compact sad
formidable. As IS evtderCed IN
their iouynsIs, eli ever the United
States, to-day, in the mlds: Ct their
re- JlclEg over tGe Texas victory, they
&le concentrating funds and forces
on Tennessee. Ia the meanwhile .-ey
are taElrg steps tG enhance their power
IN l.Na5. They sre adding to their forth
tIuaIons. Ia the last Of triumph they ere
pce2crlug to come before the Democratic
camp and demand the heads Of their enc
mics. Tdgy "5TeGtha out tlreatenings. ="
boyc1t.s sn prescription.
Every argument advanced against tie
trztlic during the campaign mas been IL
lrstT2led and verified in Inc election and
the victory.
T2e necessity Tor providing against
these dangers hiss not departed.
TIE history of our country a3urds1tlv
proves tina. large m8i 11.ties may be re-
FeH5ed, II the sma.. state Of North Car
olIn@, the msjcfisv against prohibition s.
one time Was l20, 600. Blu, now Droh.b.-
ton prevails il Elleigh and over the
greater part Ct the OLD North State. TIE
very yote, By the very same meg, which
rolled 10 inst I2g 900 majority vas con-
ysTtoG, within 4 decade, lato s vote OF
redemption
Inc defeated philosopher keeps cool
&nc studies the causes Of defeat II &
QUESTION mas been thoroughly discussed
get0re an intelligent and uEDreiud-Ced
peorlG-Ii the arguments fer the pTvpG-
si.jo2 Esye oeen isirly "efUttd-I the
decision has been rendered upon the uer-
its OF the question, sad not upon teClIt-
cailles or side isSuaS-snd If this de-
c!sIon is overwhelmingly agiiDal the
proposition, teen, humGuly speaking, his
question IS settled with degree 0i per
manenCy.
y But IS it so in this case: Leaving out
IL questions vi fraud, as ct FL PasJ aCd
ot2er places passing By ali illegal voting
lnut4 the Attorney Generals ruling, and
from ot2er causes; saying nothing OF lEc
lnEumGra0le switches ingeniOasIy con
struCLed for side tracking the main CUES
tIoD, there yet remains two irrelevant
f1cjoES in the contest, which by them
s-iyes account for the entire adverse
mai0rity.
l. The Republican leaders, who con
trpl their party vote, saw, or supposed
th,y saW, in the defeat OF prohibition a1
opportunity 10 disrupt the Democratic
party. They argued tnus If plohi5l-
ton prevail I'll differences Of Cpin-
ion among Democrats will be am
ca3ly adjusted and the party viii
50 On c0nqusriGg AID to conquer Eut
if il is defeated, the An1i-Pfo1iGiti0n
Democrats, spUrred on by CGi5e-seekiEg
leaders and g0aded by tine liquor
deslers Will, By some method eXCCmmUn.-
cate the prohibition Democrats. These ex-
communicates, in sgideftnse, VIII claim
TO be the true party and appeal 10 tle
people. There will then be ii the h-ld
four diSt.aC. political pCUties-Sai0on
Democrats, anti-saIeon Democrats, 11Ird
party Pr0hiOuiCaists and Republicans.
With such & division they hoped 10 esp
ture the state. Influences so cxartGd
and bslIoIs so cast we're net upon the
merits o. the question.
>. The second factor was this Though
the election was technically speaking
non psrtisa1; though the Democratic
platform, fairiy construed, Gllgwed its
constituents the privilege OF voting for
or against the amendment without for
Ca r. 7g1T 2. o.
six Democratic mem ers Of the Lexis
lature declared to the same effect,
and though the party machinery
Vas not employed, yet from the
be4ilning to the end of the cam
paign, the Authorization Democrats,
appealing TO the people in the party
name begged them lOt 30 ruin the grand
old party by adopting this amendment
They Insisted that there WAS t. bug under
the chip, @ great big Kansas bug. That
the amendment was . Trojan horse left
near the Democratic Troy, by the Gun
Ming Republican Greeks. Thousands
and tens Of thousands of men who favor
ed prohibition or its own merits were
LED by their fears Of the imaginary bug 10
vote t0r bona fde Dug Juice. They shut
their eyes to the fact that Dr.. Cochran
and loo, 600 Republicans were helping
them to pull the prohibition horse 10
pieces and distrac,ing attention until
they could slip the true horse Of Demo
c!atiC disruption into the camp-by the
BAGS way.
No ore OF tire mc2Y thousand votes 50
cast was upon the merits Of the amend
maut.
Outside OF these wholly irrelevant fac
tors great stress Was placed by the oppo-
sitiCn upon other matters more or less
connected with the amendment that were
Circumstsntial ard net essential 20 the
prohibition idea.
Il was objected that n form snd scope
TIE amendment was too sweeping and
radical for the first experiment While
there Gas difference Of opinion
among the best legal minds Sc TO
the import OF the amendment On the
manufacture Of domestic wiae for home
use, get inst construction which declared
1t adverse to auch manufacture Influenced
crest numbers to reluctantly cast anti
prohibition ballots. At least they eX-
pressed themselves as opposed 70 the
whole saloon system snd as ready to sup
port prohibition when submitted il q less
Objectionable form
Moreover; the local option counties
where Prohibition is in operation voted
against the amendment, under tie fear
tnat its sdoption would result in free
whisky throughout their counties until
the law was made operative, which, as
they were told, would be TWO years hence.
It is also believed that some politicians,
looking more 20 their own advancement
q 10 ire Of f',.t- y, 10, 20
the good Of the country or even the best
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